Jim Clancy

DESCRIPTION: "To Bangor City last year I came" and went to work in the Water Works along with "my friend Jim Clancy." He goes to Brewer, is offered a (drugged?) drink, loses his "stamps," is arrested and sentenced to making bricks. He warns against "lay-down punch"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: drink warning prison
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 131-132, "Jim Clancy" (1 text)
Roud #4158
NOTES [75 words]: This is item dH38 in Laws's Appendix II.
Gordon Bok recorded a version of this on his album "In the Kind Land." Bok explains that "stamps" are hob-nailed boots, the lack of which makes river work impossible.
Bok attributes his version to Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine (which seems to be the only collected text), yet Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine has no tune, and Bok sings it. Possibly the tune is Bok's own, but he does not claim copyright. - RBW
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